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Presidents' Day PC gaming deals 2025: the best bargains available today
El Presidente Treat yourself this Presidents' Day with some great savings on TVs and the latest PC hardware.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Best 14-inch gaming laptop in 2025: The top compact gaming laptops I've held in these hands
Smol The 14-inch form factor is the perfect nexus point between performance and portability.
The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia's RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
News It's a temporary fix, but I don't like it one bit.
There is one thing making me excited about the new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and no, it isn't Multi Frame Generation
Push it If the GPU at the heart of the RTX 5070 Ti can deliver the same level of overclocking it does with the RTX 5080 we could have a champ on our hands.
I'm genuinely stunned by the overclocking performance of the RTX 5080, and curious as to why Nvidia left so much headroom
OC hero Maybe I won the silicon lottery, but the GB203 sure looks like there was a lot of performance left on the table.
Newegg says the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards sold out 'in record time' with the retailer claiming its site was dealing with 'an 8-10x increase' in traffic
news Anecdotally we saw the cards vanish in under 5 minutes across the net.
Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review
4080 Ti Super A strangely unexciting graphics card built almost entirely for the Multi Frame Gen gaming experience.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review
All about the Gen A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering.
Best graphics cards in 2025: the GPUs I recommend for every budget
Pixel Pushers Our picks of the most powerful gaming GPUs and the ones that provide the best bang for your buck.
Color me not-shocked: RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 goes out of stock across the US and UK in 5 minutes
News We knew stock would be tight, and lo it has come to pass.
Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 release day: join us for the picosecond where the new RTX Blackwell cards are in stock
Live I don't mean to be negative, but stock is tight and demand is high...
The best wireless gaming earbuds in 2025: These are the buds I'd allow to whisper sweet nothings into my ears
Budding gamers So you finally managed to bag a Steam Deck or ROG Ally, now what are the best gaming earbuds to go with it?
Now Nvidia's hardware blocks have been AI'd out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is 'further optimization and testing'
news The pros and cons of backporting Frame Gen to RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards.
Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
news It's all part of the process.
Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
Gen or render? And here's also why we're not getting the same sort of big frame rate bump we got out of the RTX 40-series: hardware is hard.
I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
FPS in disguise The new transformer model for DLSS could be... er... kinda transformative.
Jen-Hsun reckons Nvidia has driven the 'cost of computing down by 1,000,000 times'
Comparing the relentless performance increase of the GPU to the original economic ethos behind Moore's Law.
Will there ever become a point with AI where there are no traditionally rendered frames in games? Perhaps surprisingly, Jen-Hsun says 'no'
news Then goes on to speak rather poetically about inspirational pixels.
Nvidia CES 2025 keynote live: new GPUs or there'll be a riot
Live Watch with me as Jen-Hsun presumably announces the new RTX 50-series Blackwell cards, or pulls off the biggest GPU bait-and-switch in history.
Nvidia's new RTX 5070 will deliver 'RTX 4090 performance at $549' when it launches in February
News The lowest spec new RTX Blackwell GPU is capable of frame rates akin to the $1,599 RTX 4090 of the previous generation, though likely only through new DLSS 4 AI smarts.
AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are about efficiency in terms of performance and price: 'We know where gamers buy products, it's well below that $1,000 price point'
The number one priority for this generation of Radeon GPU is "improving performance in the areas that gamers care about most."
AMD says 'the performance data out there for RDNA 4 is completely inaccurate'
News But the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT not being in AMD's CES keynote is not about any kind of development slip.
